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They demanded to Environment and Health replacing the burning of Bisphenol A in plastics plants and cogeneration in La Aljorra They ask to be replaced by natural gas the current incineration of Bisphenol A and other toxic and hazardous waste, and is chosen treatment and inerting thereof.
Ecologists in Action warns that from the point of view of air pollution and public health, waste incineration as Bisphenol A (BPA) and other wastes by the Sabic Innovative Plastics plant and cogeneration plant Energy Works, is the emission into the atmosphere of million kilos a year of Bisphenol a and other toxic and hazardous waste.
Therefore the environmental organization has asked the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment Integrated Environmental Authorization (AAI) is changed in the two aforementioned plants to prevent burning of Bisphenol A and other hazardous waste as a preventive and precautionary .
Remember that bisphenol A is an endocrine disruptor, a hormonal disruptor, which is used to make different types of plastic water bottles, plastic wrappers, cartons, cans and soft drinks, etc.
There is abundant scientific evidence of the reprotoxic nature of Bisphenol A
France banned in 2013 Bisphenol A in all food containers.
Recently, the European Commission, after hearing the member states and based on the decision (Committee for Risk Assessment of the European Chemicals Agency) RAC reported that Bisphenol A is classified as 1B, probable human reprotoxic.
Ecologists, there are alternatives to incineration of this compound.
Therefore the environmental organization believes that natural gas could well replace energy needs without having to burn this waste, which is necessary to refer them to managers of hazardous waste in landfills and treatment plants for Ecologists inerting in Action notes also it is setting the measuring station network of atmospheric monitoring in La Aljorra not measure Bisphenol a, or microparticles, or solvents such as benzene derivatives and other pollutants in the atmosphere.
So the organization has raised to the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment installation analyzers to measure these compounds in the station and to assess the levels of exposure to the public.
On the other hand, the organization recalls that the Epidemiology Service of the Ministry of Health has announced an investigation into the effects on public health of Bisphenol A, at which Ecologists in Action proposes the analysis of the population under 35 years of environment La Aljorra and Campo de Cartagena, as a priority for epidemiological study.
For these reasons, Ecologists in Action demand to the regional administration, the urgent halt the incineration of hazardous waste in the two plants mentioned as a means of prevention and precaution, which must be rendered inert and treated by authorized manager and that is chosen by its replacement by other fuels such as natural gas.
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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